Backing up to internal drive

Greetings to all.
I've got a Mac Pro here running a RAID10 software array (4*500GB). I'm pretty protected on the hardware side of things, but I'd still love to have Time Machine's versioning support available and running so I can browse previous versions of deleted files and such.
Problem is, I've only got one internal volume- and no external drives at the moment.
Is there any way I can somehow force Timemachine to backup to my "Macintosh HD" (the boot volume), into either a folder somewhere (*.backupdb) or a sparse bundle, then exclude said folder/bundle from Timemachine (as to prevent timemachine from trying to backup the timemachine backups...)?
Cheers.
-SC

ScottishCaptain wrote:
Greetings to all.
I've got a Mac Pro here running a RAID10 software array (4*500GB). I'm pretty protected on the hardware side of things, but I'd still love to have Time Machine's versioning support available and running so I can browse previous versions of deleted files and such.
Problem is, I've only got one internal volume- and no external drives at the moment.
Is there any way I can somehow force Timemachine to backup to my "Macintosh HD" (the boot volume), into either a folder somewhere (*.backupdb) or a sparse bundle, then exclude said folder/bundle from Timemachine (as to prevent timemachine from trying to backup the timemachine backups...)?
no. you can't back up to the same volume that the system is on. you can split your internal hard drive in two volumes and use one of them for TM backups. however, this is a very bad arrangement if you use it long term. if something happens to the hard drive you'll loose everything including the backups. you should get a separate physical drive (internal or external) for your TM backups.
Cheers.
-SC

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